What are you thankful for?

We have been creating Retablos for the past couple of weeks, each art student created a drawing about what they are thankful for, here's one in progress.

Retablos are coming along and getting finished!

Perspective Line Practice Drawings

This week the sixth and seventh grade eagles practiced using linear perspective to show deep space on a flat surface.  Though they each had a basic model to follow, you can see how some students really took off with the tool.  They will use the skills learned with these drawings in their first project, Mexican retablos.

Comedy Enlarged

The sixth graders worked very hard last nine weeks making sculptures of an original character for a comic strip. They worked in groups to write a story and then illustrate it in the form of a comic strip. They each built the head of their individual character using papier mache.

New School Awesomeness!!!

Haynes Bridge middle has rejuvenated my teaching! The start of this blog is to give my community, a look at the happenings of my class room. My SMART goal for the year was to create this space and post every two weeks. A second part is for the students to eventually post their work to this site and make positive comments about each others work. Let me set my alarm for that right now! I know me so well! Please enjoy and take a look around. Peace. 

  If you would like to know a little about me as an artist and art educator, feel free to look at my website. I keep this website as a primary source for my master's work, but it will give you a view of what important to me as an artist and teacher.

Www.ondrianduncan.weebly.com

Multi- media Still Life's

The seventh and eighth graders created these drawings using graphite, color pencil, oil pastel, and collage. I set up a huge still life around the room and they worked from the still life to see the values and details.  Working and manipulating the media was our focus, I think they did pretty well. 

I got the idea for this project from another art ed blogger http://calvertcanvas.blogspot.com .